The European Space Agency will build a replacement for the environmental satellite lost in an October launch failure, ESA announced Feb. 24. CryoSat-2 will replace the CryoSat spacecraft that was destroyed when its Russian Rockot spacecraft suffered a second state engine failure.

CryoSat-2, designed to study global climate change and determine the cause of the polar ice cap shrinking, is expected to be launched in March 2009.